Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1918 — PUBLIC GOLF COURSES ARE FAVORED BY TAFT [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC GOLF COURSES ARE FAVORED BY TAFT

- Twenty years ago a rather ro- ■ bust person began playing golf. After having the idea at that ’ time that golf was as absurd a game as was ever heard of, this person ex-President William Howard Taft —now has the following to say about the game: “I consider golf one of the greatest things that has come to man. Americans had been so / long chasing the almighty dol- > lar that their digestions were bad; their hair was getting r so scarce and bald that the r few hairs left should have been r shaved off altogether. Physi- , cians became alarmed at the r condition of the modern busir ness man. Since the introducJ tion of golf we have given up r business cares, but not busi- £ ness energy. The game has furr nished a reason and a zest for J exercise. It is a Godsend to the r man from fifty to eighty years f of age, and we should recognize r its health values.”